Education

The Forgotten Beasts in Medieval British Literature

My PhD project is: ‘The Forgotten Beasts in Medieval British Literature’. This involves a new eco-sensitive analysis of medieval sources describing the lynx (L. lynx), crane (G. grus), beaver (C. fiber) and whale (E. glacialis, E. robustus) in English, Latin and Welsh literature. My aim is to extract useful ecological information from these accounts. Key research questions include how these species were seen by medieval writers and when and why they became extinct.

I am due to finish the PhD next year and am looking for a new project.